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  "id": "pattern-katagami",
  "version": "pattern-katagami.2",
  "route": "/afterlives/patterns/katagami",
  "title": "Cloth pretending to be cloth.",
  "question": "How do you print the appearance of something woven?",
  "edition": "pattern",
  "format": "Interactive passage",
  "period": "mid 18th - early 19th century",
  "places": [
    "Japan"
  ],
  "themes": [
    "Pattern studies",
    "Paper",
    "Technique translated"
  ],
  "primaryClaimId": "pattern-katagami-relationship",
  "entities": [
    {
      "id": "pattern-katagami-object",
      "name": "Geometric Pattern Imitating Warp Ikat (Kasuri)",
      "kind": "work",
      "date": "mid 18th - early 19th century",
      "sourceId": "pattern-katagami-institution",
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      "mediaKey": "pattern:katagami"
    },
    {
      "id": "pattern-katagami-context",
      "name": "Warp ikat (kasuri) as named in the catalogue",
      "kind": "tradition",
      "sourceId": "pattern-katagami-institution",
      "note": "technique relationship; no individual source textile identified"
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "pattern-katagami-relationship",
      "text": "Cooper Hewitt identifies this katagami as a geometric pattern imitating warp ikat, or kasuri.",
      "kind": "catalogue-fact",
      "status": "attributed",
      "from": "pattern-katagami-context",
      "to": "pattern-katagami-object",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "sourceId": "pattern-katagami-institution",
          "locator": "Object title and medium; accession 1976-103-110."
        },
        {
          "sourceId": "smithsonian-katagami",
          "locator": "Indexed institutional object text: title, description, medium, record ID and Restrictions & Rights"
        }
      ],
      "limitation": "The museum identifies a technique relationship. It does not identify a particular source cloth or an impression made with this stencil."
    },
    {
      "id": "pattern-katagami-reading",
      "text": "Artologium’s viewing instrument is an authored close reading of the supplied image, not evidence of historical transmission or a recovered original process.",
      "kind": "visual-comparison",
      "status": "editorial-observation",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "sourceId": "pattern-katagami-institution",
          "locator": "Complete supplied photograph; authored observations in the two reading chapters"
        }
      ],
      "limitation": "The museum identifies a technique relationship. It does not identify a particular source cloth or an impression made with this stencil."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "pattern-katagami-institution",
      "title": "Geometric Pattern Imitating Warp Ikat (Kasuri)",
      "author": "Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum",
      "url": "https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18489663/",
      "kind": "object-record",
      "language": "en",
      "locator": "Object title and medium; accession 1976-103-110.",
      "supports": "Cooper Hewitt identifies this katagami as a geometric pattern imitating warp ikat, or kasuri.",
      "limitation": "The museum identifies a technique relationship. It does not identify a particular source cloth or an impression made with this stencil.",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "verification": {
        "checked": "2026-10-24",
        "method": "retained-record",
        "note": "Existing institution-derived title and medium retained; the current Cooper Hewitt page refresh remains unavailable. This is not a fresh source-text verification."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "smithsonian-katagami",
      "title": "Geometric Pattern Imitating Warp Ikat (Kasuri), chndm_1976-103-110",
      "author": "Smithsonian Institution / Cooper Hewitt",
      "url": "https://www.si.edu/es/object/geometric-pattern-imitating-warp-ikat-kasuri%3Achndm_1976-103-110",
      "kind": "object-record",
      "language": "en",
      "locator": "Indexed institutional object text: title, description, medium, record ID and Restrictions & Rights",
      "supports": "The Smithsonian record describes the resemblance to ikat and identifies mulberry paper, persimmon tannin and silk threads. It marks the catalogue record Research in Progress.",
      "limitation": "Direct page refresh was unavailable; institution-indexed text corroborates the existing accession record. No exact source cloth or historical impression is identified.",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "verification": {
        "checked": "2026-10-24",
        "method": "indexed-text",
        "note": "Official Smithsonian indexed text checked against accession 1976-103-110. Current direct Cooper Hewitt and Smithsonian page fetches remain unavailable; no fresh source-text check claimed."
      }
    }
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "chapter-0",
      "title": "A pattern, before the cloth",
      "voice": "Historical account",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The surviving object is paper treated with persimmon tannin and reinforced with silk threads. Begin with what remains: the cut surface that made a design transferable. It is a tool as well as an image."
      ],
      "claimIds": [
        "pattern-katagami-relationship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-1",
      "title": "The appearance of another process",
      "voice": "Close reading",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The catalogue title names the imitation. It connects the stencil’s geometry with warp ikat, rather than identifying an individual textile that someone copied. The fascination is in that change of technique."
      ],
      "claimIds": [
        "pattern-katagami-reading"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-2",
      "title": "Try the distinction",
      "voice": "Close reading",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Our instrument keeps the complete stencil beside a deliberately simplified drawing of a stencil workflow. Its marks demonstrate openings, a resist stage and a printed impression. They are not a recovered historical print, a tracing of the object or a reconstruction of its workshop."
      ],
      "claimIds": [
        "pattern-katagami-reading"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "treatment": {
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    "invitation": "How do you print the appearance of something woven?",
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      {
        "id": "chapter-0",
        "label": "01",
        "title": "A pattern, before the cloth",
        "text": "The surviving object is paper treated with persimmon tannin and reinforced with silk threads. Begin with what remains: the cut surface that made a design transferable. It is a tool as well as an image.",
        "claimIds": [
          "pattern-katagami-relationship"
        ],
        "entityId": "pattern-katagami-object"
      },
      {
        "id": "chapter-1",
        "label": "02",
        "title": "The appearance of another process",
        "text": "The catalogue title names the imitation. It connects the stencil’s geometry with warp ikat, rather than identifying an individual textile that someone copied. The fascination is in that change of technique.",
        "claimIds": [
          "pattern-katagami-reading"
        ],
        "entityId": "pattern-katagami-object"
      },
      {
        "id": "chapter-2",
        "label": "03",
        "title": "Try the distinction",
        "text": "Our instrument keeps the complete stencil beside a deliberately simplified drawing of a stencil workflow. Its marks demonstrate openings, a resist stage and a printed impression. They are not a recovered historical print, a tracing of the object or a reconstruction of its workshop.",
        "claimIds": [
          "pattern-katagami-reading"
        ],
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      }
    ]
  },
  "mediaKeys": [
    "pattern:katagami"
  ],
  "reception": {
    "reach": "The institution record supports the bounded relationship above; circulation and audience size have not been established.",
    "response": "No independent audience-response study is established for this investigation.",
    "consequence": "No wider societal effect is inferred from resemblance or survival."
  },
  "review": {
    "checked": "2026-10-24",
    "research": "source-checked",
    "independent": "pending",
    "assistance": "AI-assisted institutional source review and original close reading; independent specialist review pending.",
    "editorial": {
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "method": "AI-assisted source and prose review",
      "focus": "How do you print the appearance of something woven?",
      "changes": [
        "Separated the institution-attributed relationship from the authored visual instrument.",
        "Retained the missing predecessor, process or reception evidence as an explicit boundary."
      ]
    }
  },
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "pattern-katagami.1",
      "date": "2026-10-24",
      "note": "First integrated shared dossier, with source locators and separate editorial readings."
    },
    {
      "version": "pattern-katagami.2",
      "date": "2026-10-24",
      "note": "Corroborated the retained record with indexed Smithsonian object text; direct refresh limit and Research in Progress status remain explicit."
    }
  ],
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  "summary": "Cooper Hewitt identifies this katagami as a geometric pattern imitating warp ikat, or kasuri.",
  "canonical": "https://artologium.com/afterlives/patterns/katagami",
  "releaseStatus": "Local review edition; editorially revised with AI assistance; independent specialist review pending",
  "socialPreview": "Canonical investigation card. Selected passage is preserved in the URL and export, not pictured in the card.",
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      "creator": "Maker unrecorded",
      "date": "mid 18th - early 19th century",
      "institution": "Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum",
      "accession": "1976-103-110",
      "creditLine": "Gift of Helen Snyder",
      "license": "CC0",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/155705",
      "src": "/images/catalogue/chndm-chndm-1976-103-110-geometric-pattern-imitating-warp-ikat-kasuri-c04da760f7a3.jpg",
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      "sourceImage": "/images/catalogue/chndm-chndm-1976-103-110-geometric-pattern-imitating-warp-ikat-kasuri-c04da760f7a3.jpg",
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      "retrieved": "2026-10-24",
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